摘要 |
The invention is related to mechanical engineering in particular to compliant foil hydrodynamic bearings which is used in small-size high speed machines such as turbocompressors, cooling turbines etc. The inventive foil hydrodynamic bearing comprises a bearing case (7), a journal (1), a compliant smooth top foil (15) and elastically damping sections, each of which consists of a spring element (25) (for example, a corrugated foil) and compliant smooth inner foils (27, 30, 33), which are fixed by one end thereof to the bearing case on both sides of the spring element. The increased frictional damping of the bearing at small rotating frequencies is obtained by that, when the journal 1 is shifted, a sliding motion with friction takes place between the contacting surfaces of the inner foils of the elastically damping sections. |